So Close and Yet So Far / By Any Other Name

So Close and Yet So Far and By Any Other Name is a combined story event. It features a rerun of the So Close and Yet So Far story event in addition to a brand new story event, By Any Other Name, that continues the first event's story. A loyalty character joins you at the start of each half of the story, and progressing through the story unlocks free quests and raid bosses.

Make sure you complete all the quests, since each chapter, free quest, and raid boss awards 50 Crystals on first-time completion. There are also 2 loyalty characters to recruit, so it may be more efficient to get them both before seriously farming loyalty, if you don't mind rushing through the So Close and Yet So Far story, since By Any Other Name requires the first story event to be completed first. The challenge quest uses guest characters, plus it's free, so you should attempt to clear it even if you don't feel like you're strong enough.

On October 4, 2016, at 17:00 JST, a daily mission will be added to the event to assist others in their raids 5 times per day. This awards raid summoning items and crystals, so definitely make sure you remember to complete it each day.

None of the event rewards are particularly exciting, so, unless you have a personal attachment to any of them, it's not worth trying very hard to obtain multiple copies of anything. Aside from the crystals and characters, it's probably best to largely ignore this event.

Pflug - big Water damage to 2 random allies. Can be used in Overdrive.

Todesstoss - medium Water damage to all allies, inflict Water DEF DownDEF is lowered for water DMG, and lowers charge bar by 20%. Used as a trigger under 50% HP.

After defeating a Yin and Yang or Oxymoron that you summon, there is a low chance to unlock a one-chance, Nightmare-difficulty, solo quest.

NIGHTMARE: Oxymoron, Lvl 70 Fire

HP

Cost

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0 AP (first time)

Rewards

Honor

25,000

Light Tokens

24

Chests

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Gold Badge

Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen.

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After defeating a Montague Guard or Lord Montague that you summon, there is a low chance to unlock a one-chance, Nightmare-difficulty, solo quest. The first time this quest is completed, you earn one Verona Heart03 summon.

Collect tokens by completing quests and defeating raid bosses. Spend 2 tokens to draw from the fixed-content reward box. Once Oxymoron is drawn, you may reset the box. Starting with the fourth drawbox, you can only reset the box once it is completely empty.

Collect honor by completing quests and defeating raid bosses. When certain amounts of honor is accumulated, earn rewards. The number used to gauge each player's contribution to a raid boss is also called honor; the amount of event honor earned per raid boss is equal to the amount of contribution honor accumulated plus a static bonus amount based on whether you started the raid or joined as support.

This challenge is fairly straightforward. Given a full team of Water guests, it would behoove you to make your main character Water as well, and make your main and support summons Water too. The first battle is against Fire Elemental and Water Elemental, but they have very low HP so just auto attack to kill them quick. The second battle is against Oxymoron, and your allies will give you some tips, although the fight is pretty much the same as the raid battle from the story. It uses Contradiction every 25%, which deals more damage the higher your HP is. Leaving it low means that, below a certain threshold, a character can take 0 damage from Contradiction. Anyway, nothing really happens during this fight, so just nuke away. At low HP, you can pop Sahli Lao's counterattack to draw some fire, or it will just go down quietly anyway, so feel free to experiment with your guest characters' skills.